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Anyone else do this growing up?

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are you talking about turning the adjust knob over and over with the lever? ( your link doesn't give a video for me )

it's cool until you run out of gas which doesn't take long
 
So, the gas is just free-flowing out of the lighter, even without the button being pushed down? Fail. (Though, I suppose you could figure out what the maximum adjustment was.)

When I was a kid, we'd get cigarette loads from the five and dime store. They were like little wooden slivers. You slipped them into the tip of the cigarette. After a couple of puffs, BANGGGG! It would blow the tip of the cigarette to pieces. It was akin to having a small firecracker in the cigarette.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N87x1T7QBmw

I'm going to guess that anything on the market now is pussified to a small snap. They used to blow the tip off the cigarette, leaving the cigarette unlit.
 
Wedge it in between rocks and cover the bottom with sand for extra stability. Then light the plastic at the top and move a teensy bit back.
 
No but we would use a can of WD-40 as a flame thrower. I'm surprised we didn't blow ourselves up.
 
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No but we would use a can of WD-40 as a flame thrower. I'm surprised we didn't blow ourselves up.
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WD-40? Pshhh. Twice this summer I've gotten rid of large wasp & yellow jacket nests using ether starting fluid. 2 seconds of that, and there isn't a trace of the wasps/yellowjackets. I'd imagine it's what Hiroshima was like, just on a smaller scale.
 
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WD-40? Pshhh. Twice this summer I've gotten rid of large wasp & yellow jacket nests using ether starting fluid. 2 seconds of that, and there isn't a trace of the wasps/yellowjackets. I'd imagine it's what Hiroshima was like, just on a smaller scale.
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Ya, I remember it making a nice flame for roasting red ants lol.
 
Never tried that but did use big repellant for flame throwers and caught a bush on fire next to the house. Enjoyed fire a lot in fact, played with nail gun cartridges and homemade gun powder and firecrackers. Never caused much damage thankfully.

One of the few fire games you can play indoors: get strike anywhere matches and tightly wrap tin foil around the head. Put a tiny hole in it with a pin and now set it on the counter. Light it with another match and you get a rocket that will go a few feet.

Seems all the kids these days are less likely to play with slingshots and firecrackers (and in fact those to well together as well) and toy guns and instead do lame ass stuff indoors.
 
DrPizza said:
WD-40? Pshhh. Twice this summer I've gotten rid of large wasp & yellow jacket nests using ether starting fluid. 2 seconds of that, and there isn't a trace of the wasps/yellowjackets. I'd imagine it's what Hiroshima was like, just on a smaller scale.
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Newer bottles of WD40 don't do this anymore. I tried it on a hornet's nest in a shrub and I just lubricated the hell out of them.
No more flamethrowers! 🙁
 
Growing up, I did not have a lighter nor did I feel any need for it. My mom had safety (wood) matches to light up the stove but that was it.
 
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